Meeting for Sufferings was told of recent developments towards conscientious objection to military taxation.
Meeting for Sufferings was told that rooms at Friends House will be named after well-known Quakers. Each room will have a plaque outside the door saying who the person was. This is…
Representatives on Meeting for Sufferings were given the opportunity to reflect on Yearly Meeting (YM) 2016, held in May, and to begin the process of looking ahead to future YMs.
A change to the agenda of Meeting for Sufferings was made to allow time for reflection on the recent EU referendum and forty minutes were given to ministry before the close of the…
Mark Lilley, assistant clerk of the Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR), began his report to Meeting for Sufferings: ‘What lies at the heart of this…
Meeting for Sufferings approved a travelling minute for Paul Parker, Britain Yearly Meeting recording clerk, and Deborah Rowlands, clerk of the Yearly Meeting (YM).
The ‘Meeting for Sufferings Roadshows’ in 2014 and 2015 met Friends around Britain. In some places they were asked why Sufferings was ‘almost’ always held in London.
The Church Government Advisory Group met at Friends House on 11 April. They sent a minute to Meeting for Sufferings asking that a review of the appeal process against decisions by…
The Committee on Clerks brought forward the names of Anne Ullathorne to serve as the clerk and Margaret Bryant to serve as the assistant clerk of Meeting for Sufferings from 1…
The 150th birthday of Friend and social reformer Ada Salter will be marked on 15 and 16 July.
Britain Yearly Meeting has made a statement on the EU referendum. The statement expressed concern that the outcome of the EU referendum and the campaigning that led up to it had…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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